Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update 12.27.o6

Yo this update is massive and has tons of great info in it about what has gon down the past 6 months at our chapters across the country. I warn you that it will take a minute to get through but its well worth it. Thanks to everyone who made 2006 a tremendous year for Hip Hop Congress. Shouts to Shamako, Ron, Jordan, and Reali for starting this organization. 2007 will be just as crazy!

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Weekly Update o6.o7.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BOULDER 6/22-6/25:
The schedule has been released! Roll over to hiphopcongress.com to download the schedule in Word. Word.

Don’t forget to book your room at the Boulder Outlook. Walking distance from the conference events and only 90 bucks a night. You can fit up to 4 people per room so it works out to something like 25 a night with tax.

To reserve your room, go to www.boulderoutlook.com. 1800 542 0304. We have 30 days to fill them up at this rate so please call and book the room today. It’s better to reserve and cancel if for some reason you need less rooms than to need another room and not be able to get it at our rate.

If you are interested in attending, performing, or just want to say hi to Shamako, please email him at Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

UC IRVINE:
ahhhhh…the rush is finally over, and it’s time to take a deep breath because this year has been an amazing year for Hip Hop Congress at UCI no doubt!!!!! ORG of the YEAR baby! yeeeeeeahhh!

We ended things off strong with a crazy big show featuring Supernatural and Ghostface Killah which was fun…but if it was a solo HHC project, things would have been much different…but that’s what happens when you work with other organizations…and now we just know what there is to know. Can’t wait to show you all footage at conference.

But the time has come to say goodbye to some of our beloved HHC All-Stars cause graduation is right around the corner. Gene, Jeremy, Kenny, Manny (and anyone else I may have missed)….you fellas are the shit. Keep the Hip Hop Alive when you hit the world….cuz that’s what y’all do best. Luv ya mean it! and the rest of youse….be ready for KillaCALI to roll deep to Colorado….cannot wait to see your silly faces.

PEACE
anh

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do cuddies? yo your boy finna graduate from SJSU and let the new blood run hip-hop congress san jose state university chapter. I ain’t retiring i’m jus moving to Macramento that’s Sacramento for y’all not from the yay area yadadamean? but hope to see all ya’ll out in colorado doin ya damn thizz. all we have planned this week is mad studying for finalz and no meeting. However we are finna roll out to Pedro’s Restaurant in Santa Clara to have our annual banquet and we’re going to show our appreciation to a woman named Hyon Chu Yi who has helped Hip-Hop Congress at SJSU whenever we needed anything. Our semester is over at SJSU and we jus postin up doin our thizz. We’re still mentoring kids at Burnett Academy out here since they’re still in skoo and we’re finna throw a lil jam for them on Thursday. Dj Dripso is going to be tearing it up on the wheels of steel and hopefully we’ll have some folks breaking and spittin some hot lyrics yadadamean. Other then postin up we are waitin for the conference out in colorado so we can rep the yay area by goin dumb and ridin the yellow bus!

see ya’ll soon. one.

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
Our Hip Hop Awareness week went really well. The Women in Hip Hop seminar was so popular that we overflowed the room, The Ol School Hip Hop party was an absolute blast, the elementary school kids had a lot of fun with the elements workshop and Jeff Chang was incredible guy and an great speaker. Right now we are looking forward to Colorado, tryin to get some funds.

peace,
Tommy

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Weekly Update o4.26.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE—HOTEL INFO:
Shamako has been on the ground in Boulder, Colorado for the past week. He has been making connections, scouting locations, and getting a taste of what we will be experiencing on June 22nd to the 25th for our 5th annual National Conference. Make sure you are there. Book your flights now.

And for the long-awaited hotel information.

We have reserved 30 rooms with the Boulder Outlook for you all. The hotel is great! Walking distance from the conference events and only 90 bucks a night. You can fit up to 4 people per room so it works out to something like 25 a night with tax.

To reserve your room, go to www.boulderoutlook.com. 1800 542 0304. We have 30 days to fill them up at this rate so please call and book the room today. It’s better to reserve and cancel if for some reason you need less rooms than to need another room and not be able to get it at our rate.

If you are interested in attending, performing, or just want to say hi to Shamako, please email him at Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do yo? Last week was Hip-Hop Congress week.

We took over the campus amphitheatre on Wednesday by bringin out Biggo Entertainment and our own HHC members opened up the show for them, we had our president Young DM aka “Craziness” and Madman rock the mic first. That night at approximately 8:18 p.m. we had a open mic at the dining commons which popped off and we had some dope pieces from spoken word to poetry to freestyles. Then on Thursday we had Black Thursday with the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. which we helped out with in the amphitheatre. Then on Friday we had Young DM aka “Craziness”, Madman, II-II, D-Labrie, and Yung Kash perform on tower lawn for Relay for Life to fight cancer. We’re also about to bring out Remind from legendary breaking crew Style Elements on May 9th. Other then that we been bizzy riding the yellow bus doin our thizz. yadabooboo! one.

CAL STATE LA:
CSULA HipHop Congress presents, Bring Your Skills: Back 2 Basics
Location: Golden Eagle Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Time: 7:30pm – 11:45 pm

Featured Acts: K-Lien, Kidd(Black Collar Ent.), E.A.R.T.H., Western Conference, DJ Frank(e) doing a DJ scratch exhibition, Soul Elevation (DJ Icy Ice from 93.5 KDAY and Toquon)

Main Event: Fresh Air, Curse, and the hip hop congress battle between Rahman Jamaal going against Darkside in a 3 Round Emcee Battle

If anyone needs any info call (323) 559-5428 and ask for Laquan

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“You know what else is pouring over our borders? Greenland.” –Bill Maher

Weekly Update o3.3o.o5

NUMBER 28 at INDIANA STATE:
Wow we keep on moving. We’d like to formally announce that we’ve added our 28th Chapter to the Hip Hop Congress. The newly formed Hip Hop 4 One at Indiana State. Look out for big things coming out of this chapter. Midwest chapters, please send Aaron (ISU Chapterhead) an email welcoming him to the fold. indianastate@hiphopcongress.com All other chapters, hit him up as well. Let’s build a solid foundation for years to come.

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Finalizing plans for our HipHop Week…hopefully it’ll be a full fledged one..so far we’ve got IL Breaks 2005 (April 23rd) and Blueprint/Illogic (April 21st) show confirmed. More info on the b-boy event is available at www.ilbreaks2005.lostpaperclips.com. Neighboring chapters are invited to come through! I’ll be in touch with y’all. Other than that, the weather was great today so we had a big cipher on the quad. Got a date auction fundraiser coming up as well as a few shows (Video Trapped the Rapper Tour, Talib Kweli). Peace!

USC:
What up from Hip Hop Congress! We got a double-special for you’all this week. Not only are we throwing down a weekly meeting tomorrow, Weds. March 30. But we also doing a special meeting on Friday, April 1. We’ll be wrapping up the semesters’ meetings on Friday with a special freestyle workshop featuring the ever-popular Rahman. And there is the possibility of us watching a movie on freestyling. We’ll also be talking about an article that appeared on DaveyD.com entitled “Civil Rights Leaders: Back Up Before You Disrespect Hip Hop Again!!!” By: Adisa Banjoko.

Respect HHC.

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